Raise the Hammer

Comment 90613

By transporter (registered) | Posted August 04, 2013 at 13:59:56

This comment is about transportation subsidies.
According to Transport Canada, $25 billion goes to automobiles, for road building, yearly. And $7 billion goes to transit. The website that I went to does not indicate how much of that $7 billion goes to road building.
Governments take in $12 billion yearly, in fuel taxes.
So, I see automobiles being subsidized, at the rate of at least $13 billion per year. - I say, "at least", because I don't know how much of that $7 billion goes to building roads (for buses). I have tried asking that question of other sources, but as yet, have not received an answer.
But regardless, I see it as an expenditure that benefits automobile infrastructure only, and other transportation infrastructure (ie, for trains, bicycles & pedestrians) not at all.
I don't think this is fair. I think that subsidy should be halved: half should go to automobiles (including buses), and half should go to all the others.